Steam-cooker.



No. 771,574. PATENTED OCT. 4, 190% s. RENN. STEAM COOKER.

APPLIUATION FILED DEC. 3, 1902..

' N0 MODEL.

WITNESSES: Q wvewron @ww By A TKO/ME r Patented October 4, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

SAMUEL M. RENN, OF SPENCERVILLE, INDIANA.

STEAM-COOKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,574, dated October4, 1904.

' Application filed December 3, I902. Serial No. 133,652- (No model.)

To ILZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL M. RENN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Spencerville, in the county of Dekalb and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Steam-Cookers; andI do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon,which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in steam-cookers; and the objectthereof is to afford means to prevent the food when placed in theapparatus from becoming soaked with condensed steam.

I accomplish my object by the construction illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an elevation partly cutaway. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the steam-chamber. Fig. 3 is aplan showing one of the horizontal partitions. Fig. 4 is a cross-sectionofthe steam-chamber, the section being in a plane indicated by thedotted line of Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a cross-sectional view, on anenlarged scale, of one of the partitions.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughoutthe several views, and referring now to the same, 1 is a verticalcylindrical steam-chamber, and 2 is a cylindrical vessel arranged to litin the top of the steam-chamber, and thereby close its upper end. Thesaid vessel is provided with a lid 3, which is of a size suitable to fitthe top of the steam-chamber and close the same when the vessel 2 is notused. A door 5 is attached, by means of hinges 7, to the steam-chamber,and latches 6, attached to the door, are adapted to engage the eyes8,and thereby hold the door in its closed position. The lower part ofthe steam-chamber is adapted to contain a quantity of water, and anopening 4; is made in said chamber to aflord communication with thespout 10, arranged u pon the outer side thereof. A number of shoulders12 are made to extend inwardly in the chamber 1 to support thepartitions l3 horizontally therein. Each partition 13 is formed with anouter flange 14 and has an annular gutter 17 bordering the inner edge ofsaid flange. An annular series of holes 15 is made in the partitionalong the lowermost part of said gutter. The central part of thepartition is elevated and is flat and forms a plane 18, upon which avessel of food is adapted to be placed. Radial channels 16 extend fromsaid plane downwardly to said gutter, the lower ends thereof coincidingwith the holes 15.

In the operation of my invention a quantity of water is fed through thespout 10 into the lower part of the chamber 1, and the chamber is placedupon a stove to generate steam within the chamber. Vessels of food areplaced centrally upon the partitions 13, and the door 5 is then closed.As the steam condenses upon said vessels and partitions it gravitatestoward the gutters along the channels 16 upon the upper and lower sidesof the partitions. The holes 15 allow the collected water to passdownward to the lower part of the chamber, where itis regenerated intosteam. By causing the condensed steam to flow outward to the gutters itis prevented from dropping into the vessels of food on the partitionsbeneath, thus avoiding unnecessary wetting the food. I have shown aspigot 11 at the lower end of the chamber 1 for drawing off the watertherefrom. The vessel 2 affords a convenient means of keeping food warmwithout danger of burning it.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. In a steam-cooker, a steam-chamber adapted to contain water in itslower part having shoulders extending inward in the chamber; a vesseladapted to fit in the top of the chamber and close the same; and one ormore partitions adapted to range horizontally within the chamber andrest upon said shoulders respectively, each of said partitions having acentral raised portion, and an upwardly and outwardly extending flangeforming an annular gutter, said raised portion being pro- Vided withradial channels leading to said gutter, and said gutter being providedwith holes.

2. In a steam-cooker, a steam-chamber; and In testimony whereof I aflixmy signature in one or more horizontal partitions arranged in presenceof tWo Witnesses. said chamber, each having an annular gutter SAMUEL M.RENN. near its edge, and radial channels leading downwardly andoutwardly from the central plane thereof to its gutter, and having alsoone or more holes leading from its gutter.

l/Vitnesses:

I/VALTER Gr. BURNS WILMER LEONARD.

